Door check and closer.



Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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BELONIE JANELLE, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

DOOR CHECK AND CLOSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 14, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Serial ND. 452,812.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BELONIE JANELLE,Cll1l zen of the United States, residing at Manchester, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door Checks and Closers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to door checks and closers; and it consists in the peculiar and I advantageous device, hereinafter described and claimed, for checking and then tightly closing and holding closed a screen or other door.

In the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure l is a view illustrating my novel device in side elevation as holding a screen door against the face of the door casing. Fig. 2 is a view showing in side elevation the casing portion of the device as said portion appears after the door is opened. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the portion of the device shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the door member of the device, removed.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

A is a door casing, and B, a door, both of which may be of the conventional construction or of any other construction consonant with the purpose of my invention.

C is the casing portion of my improved device, and D is the door member or portion thereof.

As clearly shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the casing portion C is made up of a bracket (1, fixed to the inner side of the casing upright remote from the hinge point of the door, and having a lateral journal 5 and also having a slightly inclined platform 0 disposed below said journal, a swinging piece or keeper (1, pivoted at e on the journal I), and having a notch f and a lateral, apertured arm 9 and also having a shoulder h, disposed at the opposite side of the notch, with reference to said arm g, a slotted plate 2' adjustably connected through the medium of a bolt j to the platform 0 and having an upturned portion or stop is adapted to cooperate with the shoulder h of the swinging piece (Z, Figs. 2 and 3, a slotted plate Z also connected by the bolt 7' to the platform 0 and having a lateral, apertured arm m, and a tractile spring a extending between and connected to the arms 9 and m of the swinging piece (Z and plate Z, respectively.

The door member D is preferably formed by a loop of wire, as best shown in Fig. 4, and is fixedly connected at its ends to the inner side of the door so as to occupy the position shown in Fig. 1 when the door is closed.

When the door B is opened the parts are positioned as shown in Fig. 22'. 6., with the spring a under tension, and the shoulder h of the swinging piece 03 held by the pull of the spring against the stop is.

When the door B is swung closed, the door member D strikes the portion of piece (Z back of the slot f and the door is momentarily checked or cushioned during the movement of the spring 97. off the center and the seating of the member D in the notch f, whereupon the spring contracts, and by so doing turns the swinging piece (1 in the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. l and draws the door tight against the face of the casing. On the subsequent opening of the door, the member D turns the swinging piece d in the direction opposite to that indicated by arrow in Fig. 1 until the shoulder h brings up against the stop is and the spring is in the position shown in Fig. 2, in which state the parts comprised in the casing portion C will remain until the door is again closed.

By virtue of the plates 2' and 6 being adjustably connected with the bracket platform a, the casing portion of the device may be accurately adjusted to assure the door be-- ing tightly drawn and held against the face of the door casing.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that in addition to the advantages hereinbefore ascribed to my novel device, the same is simple and strong in construction and is adapted to be quickly and easily applied to a door casing and door without the necessity of employing skilled labor.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

In a door check and closer, a member adapted to be connected to and project from the inner side of a door and having a transverse portion at its forward end, in combination w1th a casing portlon comprising a bracket adapted to be fixed 111 a door casing, a swinging piece mounted upon the bracket and having a notch adapted to receive the transverse portion of the door member and also havlng a shoulder; said notch and shoulder being formed in the edge of the swinging piece a stop carried by the bracket and adapted to cooperate with the said shoulder of the swinging piece, and a tractile spring connected at one end to the swinging piece at the opposite side of the notch, with reference to the shoulder, and connected at its opposite end to the bracket and arranged when the shoulder is against the stop to rest under tension in a dead center with the swinging piece whereby said spring operates to normally hold the shoulder against the stop and then, when the swinging piece is turned to carry the shoulder away from the stop, operates to assist in said movement of the swinging piece and to yieldingly retain "the same against retrograde movement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

BELONIE J AN ELLE.

Witnesses J. A. BoIVIN, A. M. GILBERT. 

